My take on “unfinished business”
In his latest post Roberto (aka Sunglar) shared his thoughts about “unfinished business”, campaigns that never came to a proper end. I have to admit I know this all too well. When it...
December 6, 2011
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Unfinished business
I think as a whole we human beings are completists. We want to complete what we began; we want the whole story. We crave to know the conclusion, and when we don’t get...
December 2, 2011
Lazy Friday Video post: “John Carter of Mars – Full Trailer”
Yes, I know this is quite off-topic, but damn, this movie is looking better and better everytime they throw a few new scraps at us. I loved the book and it looks like...
December 2, 2011
Ask The Stargazer: “What is the one RPG that you have never run, but have always wanted to?”
Today’s question has been asked by a reader who calls himself Lon. And while it’s a perfect question, I am not sure how I should answer that. Let me start by saying that...
December 1, 2011
Puerto Rico Role Players: spreading our wings… And our horizons!
If you regularly read my posts you’ll have noticed that from time to time I talk about the Puerto Rico Role Players group. Along with writing here in the blog, that group has...
November 29, 2011
Legend – Help raising money for Child’s Play and get a cool RPG in exchange
Rule of Cool Gaming’s Legend RPG has probably the most generic name a fantasy RPG could have, but it’s actually a pretty interesting product. The rules may look quite familiar at first glance...
November 28, 2011
A dearth of ideas…
As I sit here pondering about role-playing games, in my turkey fuelled semi-conscious state of mind, the mind wanders to all those unused campaign ideas that pile up through the years. If you...
November 25, 2011
Searching For The Best RPG
I have been on an epic quest these last few months tirelessly searching for what could be considered the very best table top pen and paper role playing game out there. My fingers...
November 24, 2011
What was, what is and what will be
After a few days being sick, I finally went back to work today. I think this is a perfect opportunity to give you an update on what’s going on at Stargazer’s World at...
November 23, 2011
Change is good!
“To everything – turn, turn, turn There is a season – turn, turn, turn” From the song by The Byrds, by way of another book I’ve written some pretty personal posts here in...
November 22, 2011
Ask The Readers: Tell me about Gamma World!
Let me start by saying that I didn’t particularly enjoy playing D&D 4th Edition. Over the course of about half a dozen game sessions and after reading to various rulebooks I realized that...
November 16, 2011
My NaGa DeMon diary #2
My project is progressing much slower than I anticipated. But I actually made some progress and slowly, very slowly the crunch part of the game is coming together. Astronauts will use a simple...
November 14, 2011
TRPBTNTWA or “Things Role Playing Bloggers Tend Not To Write About”
Fellow RPG blogger Noisms came up with a list of subjects RPG bloggers usually don’t write about. Alas I was oblivious to the existence of said blog until I read an article posted...
November 11, 2011
Using the Kindle at the game table
Yesterday I finally got my Kindle. For quite a while I have been pondering whether I should buy one or not. Last August I bought an iPad and actually thought it might double...
November 9, 2011
My NaGa DeMon diary #1
On Friday I announced my project for this year’s NaGa DeMon. It will be a near future hard science fiction roleplaying game called Astronauts. And after making that announcement I realized two things:...
November 7, 2011
Astronauts
I finally had an idea for what I want to work on for NaGa DeMon! Astronauts will be a hard sf roleplaying game set into a near future which focuses on human space...
November 4, 2011
Putting fantastic back into Fantasy
Yesterday I played in another session of Chris McDowall’s “Into the Odd” over Google+ Hangout. As always we had a blast and it also inspired me to write about putting back the fantastic...
November 4, 2011